Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)
When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.
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The Monster Who Couldn’t Be Monstrous
Del Toro's Frankenstein is a gorgeous betrayal of Shelley's novel—a film that mistakes sympathy for depth and strips the monster of his moral agency.
Frankenstein (2025)
A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator…
Mary Shelley: The Life of the Writer Who Invented “Frankenstein”
At the age of eighteen, Mary Shelley poured all her anxieties about life and death into the story Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. With…
Monsters, Women, and Poor Creatures: From Mary Shelley to Yorgos Lanthimos
The "poor things" in the title of the Greek director's film are the women subjected to an eternal, ever-changing, and renewable system of oppression…